Tech.Co

AUGUST 17, 2015

This 2015 event features 2 full days of compelling presentations, panels, workshops & mixers, with some of the industry’s most innovative and successful leaders. Come meet some of LA’s most cutting‐edge industry leaders in this year’s 2nd annual and only FREEMIUM Tech Summit.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

According to Siemer & Associates, this year's conference, the Siemer Summit 2015, will be held from October 13th to 14th, and will feature Tim Draper as the keynote speaker. This time, the event is being held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, rather than Santa Monica, where the event had been held in prior years.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 12, 2017

The flow of venture capital dollars invested into Los Angeles-area companies fell 16.3 billion in 2015 to $3.49 percent from a high of $4.17 billion last year, according to a report by Dow Jones Venture Source.

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DECEMBER 29, 2015

Based in Los Angeles and Taipei, Taiwan, it's a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? Today's thoughts are from Lawrence Ng , who founded Oversee.net, and just launched the OnRamp Fund (onrampfund.com).

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

The Los Angeles Cleantech Incuabtor (LACI) said this week that it has been ranked third on the 2015 University Business Incubator list, an annual ranking of top university-associated incubators. LACI said it also received the 2015 High Impact Incubation Programs in North America award by UBI Global, the group behind the rankings.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The cost and difficulty of deploying fiber for its high speed, Gigabit networking efforts in such cities as Los Angeles has Google Fiber considering a move to wireless, according to a report. Google first indicated an interest in a Los Angeles expansion back in December of 2015. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 21, 2015

The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's most active organized angel group,said today that it had its most active Q2, and had a record number of deals and dollars invested in the quarter. The group said it invested a total of $4,546,338 in 17 total deals in Q2 2015, the most invested since the group's inception in 1997.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

A report, issued earlier this week by venture firm the Female Founders Fund , says that Los Angeles, and New York, are better markets than Silicon Valley to find funding for female founders. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Mike Bonin , Council Member, City of Los Angeles. The socalTECH 50 is aimed at identifying and highlighting the top 50 people in the technology industry here, who are most likely to create the next big thing, produce the next big exit, or influence the industry in a significant way. Kevin Anderson , Appetize. Julien Bellanger , Prevoty.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

We lit our own KeyInfo fiber ring, which provides advanced connectivity services to Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? In addition, our data center passed stringent compliance and SSAE-16 and HIPPA/HITECH standards for our KeyCloud initiatives and more.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The school said the study companies as a unicorn if they exceeded a value of $1 billion during any month between January 2014 and the end of 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based zero-emissions heavy-duty vehicle company GreenPower Motor Company has delivered its first, all-electric school bus to a district in Santa Maria, according to the company. The publicly traded company had a US IPO and NASDAQ listing in August of 2020 but has been trading on the Toronto exchange since 2015.

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MAY 1, 2015

The Tech Coast Angels , one of the most active angel investment groups nationwide in addition to here in Southern California, said Friday that it invested in eight new and follow on deals in the first quarter of 2015, in addition to seeing two exits out of its portfolio. Both Thermark and Olive Medical were acquired in February.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from March Capital, Greycroft, Machinima, Silicon Valley Bank and Amplify who will share their insights and forecast for start-ups in 2015. Sponsorship opportunities for events.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Arivale , a health and wellness startup founded by genetic sequencing pioneer Dr. Leroy Hood, has launched itself into the Los Angeles market, as its first expansion beyond its home market of Seattle. Arivale raised $36M in 2015 from Maveron, ARCH Venture Partners and Polaris Partners.

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DECEMBER 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based video story app developer Flipagram said Wednesday that it added more than 1,000 signed, musical artists to its "Flipagram Verified" platform, letting those artists make their music available to Flipagram's users.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Los Angeles-based Metropolis, a new startup focused on parking, has raised a huge, $41M Series A funding, the company announced on Tuesday. Israel is the co-founder of parking startup ParkMe, which was acquired by Inrix back in 2015. The company says it has now raised $60M in total funding.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Biotech mogul and billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has agreed to acquire the Los Angeles Times from current owner Tronc , according to a report from the Washington Post on Tuesday afternoon. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a biotech billionaire and technology industry regular, who runs the NantWorks family of companies in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 14, 2021

Mercato was founded in 2015 and helps over a thousand smaller grocers and specialty food stores get online for pickup or delivery, without having to sign up for delivery services like Instacart or Amazon Fresh. Mercato operates in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, where the company is headquartered.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Techstars--which runs a significant number of startup accelerators in Los Angeles, including Techstars Los Angeles , the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator , Techstars Music , and the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Powered by Techstars --said it has started accepting applications from nonprofits looking for grants. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2019

The onetime social networking site, founded in Los Angeles, is now owned by Meredith Corporation and is still active as an online music discovery site. However, the site has quite a bit less music now, after the site accidentally lost all of the music uploaded to the site uploaded between 2003 and 2015.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm Upfront Ventures said over the weekend that it has named two new Partners at the firm. Carney--who has been a Principal at Upfront since 2015--previously served at Pandodaily and Worldvest. Upfront's Managing Partners are Mark Suster and Yves Sisteron. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Los Angeles-based ProducePay has inked a $190 million debt facility from Coventure and TCM Capital, to expand its lending business and marketplace for farmers. Since its launch in 2015, the company has seen $1.5 It buys produce ahead of delivery and sets itself up as a middle-man between distributors, growers and grocers.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Parabol, a company which is developing technology to enable "Agile" meetings, announced that it has raised $8M in its Series A funding. The company was founded in 2015, but apparently has seen pickup as a result of the pandemic and the move to remote work. The company is led by CEO and Co-founder Jordan Husney.

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Tech.Co

MAY 19, 2015

Make some noise Los Angeles because it’s time to compete in Tech.Co’s Startup of the Year Competition! has been traveling the globe, both virtually and physically, searching for the world’s best startup, and the Tech.Co’s Startup of the Year Competition & Tour’s next stop is in Los Angeles! IMPORTANT DATES.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

A new report, published this morning by Bloomberg, says that a massive Chinese hacking effort --involving the implantation of tiny devices on computer motherboards--was uncovered due to due diligence efforts made by Amazon , as part of its acquisition of Elemental Technologies back in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based Clutter , which operates an on-demand, physical storage service which picks up and delivers your belongings from offsite storage, has raised $64M in a Series C funding, the company disclosed this morning. Clutter has now raised around $97M in total funding since 2015. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 29, 2019

The fund--led by Carmen Palafox, Noramay Cadena, and Shaun Arora--says it has so far made investments into 16 companies since 2015. The investment fund is making investments globally, not just in Los Angeles. Size of the fund was not announced. That accelerator program is expected to run through December. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 16, 2020

FameBit--which was based in Los Angeles, and was acquired by Google in 2015 --will continue to operate, and will continue to serve Youtube creators in the U.S. with over 25,000 subscribers.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Los Angeles-based Halogen Ventures, the venture capital firm led by Jesse Draper, has raised $21M in its second fund, the firm said on Wednesday. Halogen Ventures was founded in 2015, and so far has invested in over 60 female founded companies, and says it now has ten exits out of its portfolio.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The company--which had announced plans to open a location in Los Angeles in 2014, and even announced a deal in May of 2015 to open up a location at The REEF in downtown Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which actually funds more startups then all other venture sources combined (over $25 billion annually). Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based Chrome River , a developer of expense management and invoice management software, reported what it said were record revenues in 2016, and its highest ever sales quarter in the final quarter of the year. The growth comes thanks to $100M in funding from Great Hill Partners in June of 2015. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based ComicBlitz , an online, subscription comic book service which lets users access unlimited digital comic books for $7.99 a month, has been acquired by Los Angeles-based Cinedigm. ComicBlitz was launched in 2015. Financial details of the buy were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Los Angeles-based footwear trading site Goat Group , founded by Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano, has raised a big, $100M funding round from footwear retailer Foot Locker , the two announced on Thursday. in total since it was founded in 2015. GOAT has now raised $197.6M READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The Chief Marketing Officer of high flying, Los Angeles-based job recruiting technology developer ZipRecruiter has resigned from the company, after a story was published last week by BuzzFeed, detailing alleged sexual misconduct at his prior employer, Uber. Eyal Gutentag reportedly resigned on Friday.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based GOAT Group , which operates an online marketplace for collectible sneakers, apparel, and other accessories, has raised another $100M in funding, the company said this morning. The Series E funding was led by D1 Capital Partners. GOAT has now raised a total of $290M. The company is led by co-foudner and CEO Eddy Lu.

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